Using your poker parlance, I believe the Democrats are in real trouble because this time, and once and for all, they have shown their hand. For sixty years the leftist trajectory moved by fits and starts but ineluctably leftward. Now finally, the left drift has become a race, and Democrat Marxist plans for education, the military, public safety, immigration, and the economy are quite clear. They are draconian. They are anti-intellectual, anti-military, anti-police, anti-culture, and luddite. The cleavage between left and right, Democrat and Republican, is now so apparent it is impossible to ride the fence or seek compromise. The next four years are crucial, and it is quite possible that we will see an election that in its outcome mirrors 1932.
Their march left has finally hit the brick wall. Like the parade band in Animal House they have marched into the wall. The ones in front are being smashed by the ones behind them, moving and smashing, and no where to go. They can’t retreat, the forward motion can’t be stopped. So they are carried along until the wall ends their parade and the whole band just collapses into a heap of broken dreams, tangled lies and no plan B.